Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss

The 26-year-old billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, who is already under fire for his website’s abuse of privacy, now faces ridicule

Just as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of
Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and
untrustworthy sex maniac.

The website and its 400m users have been beset in the past week by rows over
changes to its privacy settings.

However, they have nothing on the invasion of privacy facing Zuckerberg in a
£40m black comedy called The Social Network, adapted from The Accidental
Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, creator of
The West Wing.

Six years ago Zuckerberg created what was to become the internet phenomenon
Facebook in an all-night “tidal wave” of grief after being dumped by his
girlfriend.

On Friday, as Zuckerberg celebrated his 26th birthday, he faced another
tsunami of anger, this time from Facebook users who turned the socially
awkward youth into the world’s youngest billionaire.